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DAVE PICKS GILLIBRAND AS LIBERAL DEMS HOWL ( An Upstate Conservative for Hillary's slot???)
New York Post ^ | January 23, 2009 Posted: 2:03 am | FREDRIC U. DICKER State Editor

Posted on 01/23/2009 7:42:32 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Edited on 01/23/2009 7:52:04 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

ALBANY - Gov. Paterson, defying the liberal wing of his Democratic Party, has chosen little-known, NRA-backed, upstate Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as New York's junior senator, it was learned last night.

The surprising - and, for many Democrats shocking - decision to pick the conservative Gillibrand, 42, from Hudson in Columbia County, was disclosed by the governor in calls to party officials and some members of the state's congressional delegation, many of whom said they were unhappy with the selection, sources said. Gillibrand, a mother of two occasionally resented by colleagues for being an aggressive self-promoter, was strongly backed for the post by Charles Schumer, the state's senior senator, who said a woman and an upstater was needed on next year's ticket.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: democrats; hillaryslot; nysenate; senate2009
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

ROFL...I missed that...


21 posted on 01/23/2009 8:01:10 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thank you, Caroline!


22 posted on 01/23/2009 8:01:10 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder
At Drudge too....possible Satire???....and it's not April 1 yet...
23 posted on 01/23/2009 8:02:27 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Dr. Ursus
Ms McCarthy,if you run in 2010,the nation and the rest of the state of New York will know what a lightweight you are.

Nice. That'll get McCarthy out of the House and hopefully a Republican can get the seat back. (Times have changed, so it isn't a slamdunk.)

24 posted on 01/23/2009 8:02:31 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter. Before the late bell. When I close the door.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

Headline from NY Post ....not mine....


25 posted on 01/23/2009 8:03:45 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: rod1

I guess the author of the article considered her conservative relative to the Left Wing...but she is still a Democrat .....true.


26 posted on 01/23/2009 8:05:15 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wow, I thought I would never see the day the Dem's put a pretty lady in a high position like this..Now I just hope she is not one of the ugly democrats like Nancy and Reed personality wise..I know nothing about her so can't comment yet..I hope she is sworn in but you know Nancy she might not like seeing a pretty lady such as this around the old farts in Senate..
27 posted on 01/23/2009 8:06:26 AM PST by PLD
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”?

I don’t think so.


28 posted on 01/23/2009 8:08:25 AM PST by PurpleMan
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To: AmericanMade1776
....and it is great to see that she has an NRA approval

My guess is that will be dropped when she no longer
has to represent the Congressional District.

29 posted on 01/23/2009 8:09:50 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 78:35 And they remembered that God was their ROCK, And the Most High God their Redeemer.)
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To: PLD

Is the MSM going to call her a Maverick?


30 posted on 01/23/2009 8:10:38 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Control the information, you control the people.")
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Like Senator Lieberman in the neighboring state of Connecticut, she is right on ONE subject (and I understand that the NRA thing may have been an election ploy).

She is a screaming leftist on everything else.


31 posted on 01/23/2009 8:12:07 AM PST by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
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To: rod1
She is not a conservative and will gladly push the REID-line.

True, but compared to a downstate Liberal/Commie she's bearable, and not that far left of many upstate RINO’s. I would say she's not as far out there as Chuckie Cheeze Schumer, but she's no conservative. She got the seat in 06’ in a pretty conservative district, because the incumbent idiot Sweeney mishandled allegations of a domestic disturbance; made an ass of himself and blew a 10 point lead in the final 2 weeks. She did get re-elected against a known upstate GOP,but 2008 wasn't a good year for them here in the People's Republic of NY. With her going to the Senate, the GOP has very good chance of re-capturing the seat in 2010. I don't see any local Dims able to run as strong as she did in that district.

32 posted on 01/23/2009 8:13:26 AM PST by skully (Still waiting by the mailbox for my Obama prize!!)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

I think old John Mc would not like that if they did..he thinks he is the only Maverick areound..LOL!


33 posted on 01/23/2009 8:17:48 AM PST by PLD
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To: skully

Are you from that area...?

Where is Columbia county ...and Hudson?


34 posted on 01/23/2009 8:20:47 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Are you from that area...?

Where is Columbia county ...and Hudson?

Yes. But I don't live in Gillibrand’s district, which is pretty Conservative. I live in a district next to hers, which is solid Rat. Columbia county is near Albany. Hudson itself is about 1/2 hour south of Albany.

35 posted on 01/23/2009 8:26:49 AM PST by skully (Still waiting by the mailbox for my Obama prize!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

LOL!

A conservative Democrat.


36 posted on 01/23/2009 8:29:37 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
While I agree with your sentiments in principle, this can't be all bad to get this reaction (from the article):

The decision was a major rebuff to some of the state's best-known Democrats interested in Clinton's seat, including Attorney General and former federal Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo, for whom Gillibrand once worked as a junior lawyer; Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, and Reps. Carolyn Maloney of Manhattan and Steve Israel of Suffolk County.

She's no doubt a placeholder and will be strenuously opposed in the 2010 primary, it still is fun to see Dems angered by themselves.

37 posted on 01/23/2009 8:30:23 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Her grandmother, Polly Noonan, was the longtime para mour to legendary Albany Mayor Erastus Corning, who ruled the city for more than 40 years until his death.

Her father, Doug Rutnik, is a well-connected Statehouse lob byist with close ties to Republicans, including ex-Gov. George Pataki, former Sen. Al D'Amato and state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.

38 posted on 01/23/2009 8:32:47 AM PST by blondee123 (I will never acknowledge a Marxist as President of the United States of America!)
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To: rod1

“She is not a conservative and will gladly push the REID-line.”

I was going to say that ‘conservative’ and “Democrat” together is now an oxymoron.

For example, is this for the largest big-spending boondoggle bill in american history, that will saddle us with a $2 trillion deficit this year? You know that big monstrosity the Democrats are calling a ‘stimulus’ (it only stimulates big Govt)?

Then she’s a tax-and-spend liberal Democrat, but just less moon-batty and loony than the other liberals for not being anti-gun.

It’s a trifecta - get a candidate the liberals squawk over, shut out Andrew Coumo, and have a better shot for a win by good man Peter King (Rep, Long Island, running for US Senate).

oh, and one less Kennedy to worry about. AND, that Gillibrand House seat - it might be winnable. I think the new York Republicans should be relieved.


39 posted on 01/23/2009 8:35:04 AM PST by WOSG (Oppose bailouts, boondoggles, big Government, bad economy.)
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To: chadwimc

or Cuomo as well.


40 posted on 01/23/2009 8:35:41 AM PST by rod1
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